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Canada, the dream, happened on July 1st 1867. Canada, the reality, happened on 7 November 1885, when the last spike was driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia. The Fathers of Confederation envisioned a nation, ocean-to-ocean, from Atlantic to Pacific, but it wasn\u2019t until the Canadian Pacific Railway [CPR] completed its transcontinental railway that Canada was a reality.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\/\/ Pierre Burton, The National Dream<\/span><\/p>\n

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The last spike was an event staged by a group of capitalists to celebrate the completion of a privately owned railway, albeit one which was generously supported with public land and cash. For them the \u201ctrail of iron\u201d was a money-making proposition, not a national dream. \u201cThe Canadian Pacific was built for the purpose of making money for the share-holders and for no other purpose under the sun,\u201d stated William Van Horne. Yet within a few years myth had transformed the railway from a triumph of private capitalism into a triumph of patriotic nation-building.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\/\/ Daniel Francis, National Dreams<\/span><\/p>\n

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…nations are narrations<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\/\/ Edward Said, Culture & Imperialism<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nations are Narrations, is an experimental research and creation project exploring the narrative role of image-making in relation to the construction of national mythologies and the colonialist antecedents surrounding the legacy of the Canadian Pacific Railroad [CPR] and the railroad, stitching together site and social-specific counter narratives in order to reflect the vastness that is Canada.\u00a0Thanks to Arts Nova Scotia for their support of this project.<\/p>\n

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\nRed Snake<\/p>\n

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\nVoices of Fire [after Barnett Newman]<\/p>\n

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\nMontreal Snowshoe Club celebrating 150 years [after William Notman Studio]<\/p>\n

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\nMusquodoboit Railroad Clearing [after Gertrude Stein]
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\nThe big catch [150]<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>CN Passenger Service Train<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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